The United Nations has ruled: England has no indigenous people. France has no indigenous people. Germany has no indigenous people. Russia has only non-Russian indigenous peoples. etc. The Garifuna are a Black ethnicity of Honduras (with colonies in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States), that is, everywhere they are settler colonialists, and yet they are recognized as an indigenous people […]
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Covid Made Our Priorities Clear
It is strange what people think is important and what they think is unimportant. Education, child health, the economy, civil liberties, freedom of speech, freedom to travel, non-covid health care, community, faith, family… were found to be unimportant. But WAR, very important. Three wars were fought during the pandemic and oddly there was not a […]
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Some years ago, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright celebrated the mass death of half a million Iraqi childen in the embargo on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. She gloated and reveled in her role as a mass murderer in a way that the greatest mass murderers of the 20th century, the marxists Josef Stalin and Mao Tsetung, […]
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“The translator is a liar.” — Medieval Italian proverb. Of course we all know that Google is constantly falsifying its ephemeral search results. For example, its autocorrection/autocomplete turns the search “Clinton Crimes” into “Clinton Cares”, while “Trump Cares” becomes “Trump Crime” Searches give improbable and unreproducible results. A few days ago after a crazy editorial […]
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[Summary] Table: “Drugmakers Mine DNA Troves For Research: Selected Genetic Databases and Their Industry Partners”, in Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2019. p. B1. 23andMe (8 million individuals): Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline. deCODE Genetics (owned by Amgen) (1.6 million individuals): Amgen. UK Biobank (0.5 million individuals): AbbVie, Alnylam, AstraZeneca, Biogen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Regeneron, Takeda Pharmaceuticals. […]
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